Acorns: Local Food Week
Local food returns to the menu at an East Hull children’s centre this week as the social enterprise, Probe, launches a food week, hoping to retain the interest from residents.
Food 360, the Big Lottery Fund-backed initiative to celebrate growing and eating local produce, will be bringing food-tasting, cookery demonstrations and an activity roadshow to the Acorns Children’s Centre, Nestor Grove in Bilton Grange from Monday 23rd May.
It is the latest promotion from Probe’s local food campaign, which has been operating across east Hull since April 2010, bringing home a message that growing your own food can be fun and local food can also taste better. Food 360 is inviting Acorns’ cook Russ Urmston to stage a barbecue on Tuesday afternoon with locally-sourced meat direct from a farm, whilst project staff will also organise food-tasting sessions with user groups at the centre.
Food 360, the Big Lottery Fund-backed initiative to celebrate growing and eating local produce, will be bringing food-tasting, cookery demonstrations and an activity roadshow to the Acorns Children’s Centre, Nestor Grove in Bilton Grange from Monday 23rd May.
It is the latest promotion from Probe’s local food campaign, which has been operating across east Hull since April 2010, bringing home a message that growing your own food can be fun and local food can also taste better. Food 360 is inviting Acorns’ cook Russ Urmston to stage a barbecue on Tuesday afternoon with locally-sourced meat direct from a farm, whilst project staff will also organise food-tasting sessions with user groups at the centre.
The momentum for local food is on a high in Bilton Grange following a hugely-successful open day at the nearby East Hull Community Farm earlier this month. Some 775 people came to the first open event in the farm’s 19 years, to see the animals and buy meat and eggs from the shop.
Figures from the first year of Food 360 grant-aided by the Big Lottery Fund, show that thousands of people across the city have benefited from the project. Staff have delivered services to schools and community groups and at major events.
Project Co-ordinator Adrian Fisher says: “The Food Week is our second event at the Acorns where the popular cafe will also be offering a special local food menu, something a little different to normal. We’ll be catering for all ages with food-tasting and hoping residents might consider starting to grow their own produce too.”
It marks the curtain-raiser to a busy summer for Food 360, with another Food Week planned at St Aidan’s Cafe, Southcoates Avenue, from 13th June, involvement with Beverley Folk Festival that month, and Yum Food Festival in Hull City Centre on 29th and 30th July, where Hull’s new Square Metre Gardening, run by Probe and inventor Robin Rose, will make its city debut.
Figures from the first year of Food 360 grant-aided by the Big Lottery Fund, show that thousands of people across the city have benefited from the project. Staff have delivered services to schools and community groups and at major events.
Project Co-ordinator Adrian Fisher says: “The Food Week is our second event at the Acorns where the popular cafe will also be offering a special local food menu, something a little different to normal. We’ll be catering for all ages with food-tasting and hoping residents might consider starting to grow their own produce too.”
It marks the curtain-raiser to a busy summer for Food 360, with another Food Week planned at St Aidan’s Cafe, Southcoates Avenue, from 13th June, involvement with Beverley Folk Festival that month, and Yum Food Festival in Hull City Centre on 29th and 30th July, where Hull’s new Square Metre Gardening, run by Probe and inventor Robin Rose, will make its city debut.
[May 2011]
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